Roger Miller

Billy Bayou

Roger Miller


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BILLY BAYOU
ROGER MILLER
Written by ROGER MILLER

VERSE 1:
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Back about eighteen hundred and some,
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A Louis-i-an-a couple had a red headed son.
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No name fitted him, Jim, Jack or Joe.
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They just called him Billy Bayou.

CHORUS:
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Billy, Billy Bayou, watch where you go;
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You're walking on quick-sand, walk slow.
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Billy, Billy Bayou, watch what I say;
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A pretty girl'll get you one of these days.

VERSE 2:
Billy was a boy, kind of big for his size,
Red hair and freckles and big blue eyes.
Thirteen years from the day he was born,
Billy fought the battle of little Big Horn.
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VERSE 3:
One sad day Billy cried ho, ho
I can whip the feathers of Geronimo.
He smarted off and the Cheif got mad,
That like to have ended our Louisiana lad.
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VERSE 4:
One day in eighteen seventy eight,
A pretty girl walked thru Billy's front gate.
He didn't know whether to cry out or run,
And now he's married 'cause he did neither one.
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